On Thu, May 20, 2010 at 10:21 PM, Chuck van der Linden <sqa...@gmail.com> wrote: > > On May 18, 11:08 am, Audrey A Lee <audrey.lee.is...@gmail.com> wrote: >> Dear list, >> >> Today I am working through the simple tutorial here: >> http://wiki.github.com/aslakhellesoy/cucumber/ruby-on-rails >> >> It has me install Cucumber-Rails and then create a feature. >> >> Then I watch the feature fail when I run >> rake cucumber >> >> Then I watch the feature pass after I implement some code with the >> help of: >> >> script/generate rspec_scaffold Frooble name:string color:string >> description:text >> >> So I am happy. >> >> I am curious though. >> >> I'd like to have a browser appear and act-as-robot-driven. >> >> This is convenient for my development efforts. >> >> It allows me to rapidly create a development state inside a controller >> and then halt the controller with a debugger statement. >> >> Then I attach my mind to that state and tinker with values of >> variables and snippets of code. >> >> This is behavior I observed on a Rails project I wrote back in late >> 2009. >> >> Back then I was using this combination of gems: >> >> - cucumber 0.6.x >> - rspec-rails-1.2.9 >> - Selenium-1.1.14 >> >> So, here is my question: >> >> Using this combo of gems, is it possible to have a browser appear and >> act-as-robot-driven: >> >> cucumber (0.7.3) >> cucumber-rails (0.3.1) >> capybara (0.3.5) >> >> ??? >> _______________________________________________ > > If you are looking for an easy way to 'drive' a browser with Ruby I'd > suggest looking at WATIR (Web Application Testing In Ruby) which is > designed for just that sort of thing. >
I actually recommend you look at Capybara instead of Watir. It supports all major browsers by using the rock-solid Selenium2 (WebDriver) under the hood. Watir works too, but if you use Capybara you can use all of the features/step_definitions/web_steps.rb out of the box. Just add the @javascript tag above a Feature or Scenario and it should just work. Aslak > I use it along with Cucumber to do regression test suites that test > the system 'end to end' > > In my case I happen to use it within the Watircraft framework, just > because it makes things a bit easier when doing a whole suite of > tests, but for simple stuff it's probably overkill. > > There's also something called 'watercuke' referenced in the ccumber > wiki (which I really don't know much about) that provides a enhanced > level of integration.. > > If you search the web you can perhaps also find some recordings that > people have done at various conferences or user-group meetings where > demo's were done of using Water and Cucumber together > _______________________________________________ > rspec-users mailing list > rspec-users@rubyforge.org > http://rubyforge.org/mailman/listinfo/rspec-users > _______________________________________________ rspec-users mailing list rspec-users@rubyforge.org http://rubyforge.org/mailman/listinfo/rspec-users
